Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Runtime vs Tensorlake Sandboxes

Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Runtime costs $0.0895 per vCPU-hour and Tensorlake Sandboxes costs $0.07 per vCPU-hour. Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Runtime runs microVMs and limits a session to 8 hours. Tensorlake Sandboxes runs Firecracker microVMs, offers GPUs and has no session limit.

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Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Runtime

Isolation
MicroVM
Free tier
Not listed
Max session
8 hours

Tensorlake Sandboxes

Isolation
Firecracker microVM
Free tier
Free plan, $0 forever
Max session
No limit

What is different

9 fields differ. The rest are the same or not listed.

Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Runtime
Tensorlake Sandboxes
vCPU, per hour
Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Runtime: $0.0895
Tensorlake Sandboxes: $0.07
RAM, per GiB-hour
Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Runtime: $0.00945
Tensorlake Sandboxes: $0.015
Storage
Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Runtime: Session storage is free during preview. Code storage is billed at Amazon ECR or S3 rates
Tensorlake Sandboxes: $0.0002 per GiB-hour
Max session
Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Runtime: 8 hours
Tensorlake Sandboxes: No limit
Idle stop
Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Runtime: After 15 minutes
Tensorlake Sandboxes: After 10 minutes
Largest sandbox
Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Runtime: 2 vCPU · 8 GiB
Tensorlake Sandboxes: 16 vCPU · 64 GiB
Concurrent sandboxes
Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Runtime: Up to 5,000
Tensorlake Sandboxes: Up to 1,000
Isolation
Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Runtime: MicroVM
Tensorlake Sandboxes: Firecracker microVM
Integrations
Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Runtime: Claude Agent SDK, LangChain, MCP, OpenAI Agents SDK
Tensorlake Sandboxes: OpenAI Agents SDK

Full comparison

18 fields, at each provider's list price

Pricing

vCPU, per hour
Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Runtime: $0.0895
Tensorlake Sandboxes: $0.07
RAM, per GiB-hour
Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Runtime: $0.00945
Tensorlake Sandboxes: $0.015
Storage
Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Runtime: Session storage is free during preview. Code storage is billed at Amazon ECR or S3 rates
Tensorlake Sandboxes: $0.0002 per GiB-hour
Free tier
Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Runtime: Not listed
Tensorlake Sandboxes: Free plan, $0 forever
Paid plan from
Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Runtime: Pay as you go
Tensorlake Sandboxes: Pay as you go
Billing
Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Runtime: Active CPU time only
Tensorlake Sandboxes: Active CPU time only

Limits

Max session
Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Runtime: 8 hours
Tensorlake Sandboxes: No limit
Idle stop
Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Runtime: After 15 minutes
Tensorlake Sandboxes: After 10 minutes
Largest sandbox
Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Runtime: 2 vCPU · 8 GiB
Tensorlake Sandboxes: 16 vCPU · 64 GiB
Concurrent sandboxes
Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Runtime: Up to 5,000
Tensorlake Sandboxes: Up to 1,000

Platform

Isolation
Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Runtime: MicroVM
Tensorlake Sandboxes: Firecracker microVM
GPU
Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Runtime: Not listed
Tensorlake Sandboxes:
Snapshots
Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Runtime: Not listed
Tensorlake Sandboxes:
Pause and resume
Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Runtime:
Tensorlake Sandboxes:

Developer

SDKs
Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Runtime: Python, TypeScript
Tensorlake Sandboxes: Python, TypeScript
Integrations
Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Runtime: Claude Agent SDK, LangChain, MCP, OpenAI Agents SDK
Tensorlake Sandboxes: OpenAI Agents SDK

Trust

License
Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Runtime: Not listed
Tensorlake Sandboxes: Not listed
BYOC
Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Runtime: Not listed
Tensorlake Sandboxes: AWS, GCP, Azure, CoreWeave, Nebius or bare metal

Hourly cost

One sandbox running for one hour

Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Runtime
Tensorlake Sandboxes
1 vCPU · 2 GiB
Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Runtime: $0.108
Tensorlake Sandboxes: $0.100
2 vCPU · 4 GiB
Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Runtime: $0.217
Tensorlake Sandboxes: $0.200
4 vCPU · 8 GiB
Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Runtime: $0.434
Tensorlake Sandboxes: $0.400

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Which one fits

Based on the fields above

Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Runtime fits when

  • You use the Claude Agent SDK, LangChain or MCP.
  • You need SOC 2 and ISO 27001.

Tensorlake Sandboxes fits when

  • You need GPUs.
  • A session must run longer than 8 hours.
  • You want the lower list price: $0.200 against $0.217 an hour for 2 vCPU and 4 GiB.
  • You need snapshots.

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